Yahoo! IM = MalWare

[Gary Thom]

OK, I admit I'm on a crusade here :mad: Yahoo seems to have killed my IM connection usings Trillian, soo I figured I'd D/L Yahoo! While Trillian gets fixed. I chose Custom install becuase I don't want the toolbar, popup stopper or Yahoo mail etc. I just want the IM client (actually I really don't want it either but have little choice). When you select 'Custom' install you can't unselect the 'Set Yahoo as my default search engine', all is not lost, the next page allows you to unselect everything apart from IM. Then my desktop gets populated with Yahoo! icons, I don't remember agreeing to that. Neither did I say it could add all those icons to my start menu. One would have been enough. I looked into my Add/Remove programs to be greeted with 4 entries from Yahoo, including the toolbar I asked it not to install, a component for 'Yahoo mail' that I can't get rid of... I'm :mad:,

[Callixte]

I use gAim to handle MSN, Y! and AIM. It installs well, works fine with the three networks. You should give it[^] a try. Callixte.[^]

[Gary Thom]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out. Trillian was working fine till last night (they are working on a fix). BTW where are you? I followed your link. I guessed Morocco? Gary

[Gary Thom]

Grrrrrrrrrr :mad::mad::mad::mad: I just noticed, even though I chose not to install the YahooMail, they added a link to my quicklaunch bar too! I am now officially annoyed. Gary

[Shog9 0]

Meh, have some patience - there's a patch for Trillian now...
Hogwash! We all get along fine once everyone starts doing what I say! James R. Twine, Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst...

[Gary Thom]

:cool: I feel so much better :omg:

[Callixte]

> BTW where are you? I followed your link. I guessed Morocco? Nop, Paris, France. BTW, I have just checked, my gAim doesnot work with Y! anymore :(( Callixte.[^]

[Gary Thom]

As one of the other posters says, trillian is patched now, so I'm happy again. It was the French on the web-site with the Arabic graphics that fooled me :doh: I'm from Scotland, and my wife is Moroccan :-D

[Callixte]

garythom_usa wrote: I'm from Scotland, and my wife is Moroccan I see. That is why your nick is garythom_USA :confused: Callixte.[^]

[Gary Thom]

Yup, that's because we now live and work in New York, and when I was trying to get a username garythom was already taken. Gary